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The Mad Miss Manton **** (1938, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5203
Henry Fonda is battling miscasting in screwball comedy as newspaper editor Peter Ames, but Barbara Stanwyck is perfect, throwing herself delightfully into the part of The Mad Miss Manton (1938). Director Leigh Jason’s short (just […]
Scanners *** (1981, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 5157
Writer-director David Cronenberg’s startling Canadian 1981 futuristic sci-fi action horror thriller basically tells a good versus evil battle story, but with an exploding head refreshing the mix. It was a special effects-driven eye-opener back in […]
The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101
Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]
Bunny Lake Is Missing **** (1965, Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Noël Coward, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie, Clive Revill, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 5001
You don’t get many films billed as ‘ A conspiracy of madness’ but here it is. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1965 crafty and engrossing mystery crime thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing comes from the pens of […]
Sully: Miracle on the Hudson **** (2016, Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney) – Movie Review
Director Clint Eastwood’s 2106 real-life rescue drama Sully is just great, a warm, emotional story, extremely well told. No one could have played Sully but Tom Hanks, who is perfect in the part. It is an ideal […]
The Dilemma ** (2011, Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah, Chelcie Ross, Amy Morton) – Classic Movie Review 4614
Confirmed bachelor Ronny (Vince Vaughn) has a best friend in his old college buddy Nick (Kevin James), now his happily married business partner in an auto design firm. But then Ronny finds that Nick’s wife […]
Spartan **** (2004, Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H Macy, Tia Texada, Johnny Messner, Clark Gregg, Stephen Culp, Ed O’Neill, Kristen Bell) – Classic Movie Review 4584
In writer-director David Mamet’s 2004 crime drama, Val Kilmer gives his best performance in a decade as maverick Delta Force agent Robert Scott, the head of a covert action squad assigned with a rookie partner Curtis (Derek […]